Never waste a good crisis-How Xi Jinping removed his rivals, took control of CCP

China watchers were glued to the words that CCP chairman Xi Jinping uttered in his two-hour-long speech on Monday while looking for signs of any policy signalling that could mark a significant shift. The speech is examined for the policy statements, which didn't mark any significant shift from the previous pronouncements by Xi over the past two years. Xi has been building up the narrative of a self-reliant policy in a turbulent world for a while now. He is the ultimate crisis manager. An ability he has honed over the years. In the early 1980s, when Xi Jinping was county…